{"id":584,"date":"2015-12-29T23:20:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T07:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenscaler.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2015-12-29T23:20:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T07:20:12","slug":"the-art-of-model-railroading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenscaler.com\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Model Railroading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was fortunate to spend a part of the Holidays in Colorado Springs this year. I was delighted to discover that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csfineartscenter.org\/museum\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pikes Peak Fine Arts Center<\/a> is hosting a model railroading exhibit through January 2, 2016, featuring N scale and HO scale modular club layouts. The layouts are from a local club, the N-gineers, and local members of the National Model Railroad Society. If you are in anywhere near Colorado Springs this week, you should stop by the exhibit if you can.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csfineartscenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Train_200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>Club Members are on-hand to run the layouts and talk to visitors about &#8230; well, anything at all about model railroading and the layouts. Both layouts had a scavenger hunt, challenging visitors to find various scenes and scenic elements. I spent a delightful hour there after Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>It might seem odd to have operating railroad layouts in rooms whose walls are adorned with fine Native American art, Santa Fe folk art and works from Taos masters like Young-Hunter, Couse, Sharpe, Feschin and Gaspard. But you know what? They&#8217;re on to something here.<\/p>\n<p>Model Railroading is a form of kinetic folk art. It&#8217;s is an art form defined by the subject matter: a Railroad and its environment. From there, its up to the artist&#8211;modeler&#8211;to represent things both real and imagined using the chosen canvas and media. Sometimes the artistry is in the subtle use of material and selective compression to represent a bigger scene. Often the art of model railroading is a celebration of industrial form and function.<\/p>\n<p>I had not thought about it that way before.\u00a0 Here is yet another reason to encourage young people to get involved and express themselves through this unique art form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was fortunate to spend a part of the Holidays in Colorado Springs this year. I was delighted to discover that the Pikes Peak Fine Arts Center is hosting a model railroading exhibit through January 2, 2016, featuring N scale and HO scale modular club layouts. The layouts are from a local club, the N-gineers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[50,51],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-model-railroading","tag-art","tag-layouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenscaler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenscaler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenscaler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenscaler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenscaler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thenscaler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/thenscaler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenscaler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenscaler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenscaler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenscaler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}